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Posted on 04/12/2012 8:09:39 AM PDT by Bitsy
Home remedies that work
It’s “chegroes”, not chiggers
That’s funny. I had to google your comment before I got it - I’m slow today, obviously. Now I know what they prefer to be called. Thanks.
D-Mannose for urinary track infections.
An earache my eye!!!!
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I’d meant to tear out that big fuzzy weed out back but thanks to FR I now know it’s mullien and will let it grow.
next year, when it flowers, I’ll try the tea.
Even if it were true, social death is reversible. The regular kind, not so much...
For light constipation before you reach for any OTC drug - Heated Prune Juice with a slice of lemon in a coffee cup before you go to bed — should see some “action” the next morning. If not — another cup and you might want to stay close to home.
When I make homemade fruitcake, (I know everyone hates fruitcake except me. Anyway, I use prunes among other dried fruits. I wind up eathing half the box myself thus staying close to home the next day.
I tried a home remedy from a friend who grew up in Eastern Europe. If you have a BAD cough, first get a hot shower or bath. As hot as you can stand it. Wrap yourself up in warm jammies, robe etc and then take one or two shots of frozen vodka. I actually tried this remedy with my teen son after trying every over the counter cough syrup made. The pediatrician wanted to prescribe him codeine cough syrup but my son refused. I couldn’t believe the results. The coughing stopped in about fifteen minutes, he slept completely overnight and felt fine the next day. Before anyone admonishes me about giving vodka to a teen, I felt is was less damaging than codeine syrup or tons of OTC cough syrup. It works and now I always keep a bottle of vodka in the freezer.
We’ve goen from an average of 35 years old death rate to over 70 now- and we are NOT eatign any better than we did back i nthe day- infact I surmise we’re eatign much worse- but alas, enjoying the taste instead of gagging ourselves eating ‘healthy crap’ . I’m now over 35 years old, so any day longer I live is alreadfy a good enough gift for me and I’m goign to celebrate by eating ho ho’s, twizzlers, ice cream and cookies galore-
Activate3d charcoal reduces gas and odor- jjust don’;t tke with medicines as it itnereferes with absorption, and turns stool black
Another idea: Instead of cough syrup, try fresh lemon juice mixed with a bit of water and lots of honey, heat it up (I microwave it), then add a bit of whisky. Works great.
I will definitely give this a try the next time. It sounds sweeter to me than a shot of straight vodka. Alcohol has been used a long time for medicine... it still works great today.
Being in East Texas, we have more than our fair share of chiggers. Amazingly, I accidentilly found a fast cure for the azeholes of the insect world, its those “moisturizing” shower gels. Apparently their “moisturizing” is from putting a thin coating of polymer on you, which just happens to plug the chigger’s ability to breathe.
“Glass wax”, was a creamy pink liquid to clean your windows and it was made out of this substance. It worked very nicely. We used it with stencils and a sponge at Christmas time to make winter scenes on the windows. After the holidays you just rubbed it off and had wonderful clean windows.
bump home remedies - slug death
bump—cough cure—frozen vodka
.45 Long Colt load: 250gr lead, 8.0 gr Unique powder, velocity 850 fps.
A good general purpose load that stops most urban pests with one application. Mom swears by it.
If you need a sore throat remedy: make a cup of hot tea - black tea variety is good. Add a tiny bit of butter, a teaspoon of honey, a good squirt of lemon, and a shot of good rum. Or two. Sip till gone.
The taste could be better - but it works a charm to ease a sore throat. Long lasting too.
Goes without saying: adults only.
When I was little, we each used to chew a big yellow tablet every day in the summer, at our Fishing Camp. We called them ‘sulfur/cream of tarter’ tablets, but I don’t know if that is the correct name. I think the Doc told Mama to have us chew them so that mosquito bites wouldn’t get infected, but I truly don’t know what they were for. Maybe to keep us from getting malaria? Who knows?
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